Peter Lynch Quotes

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• Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

  Peter Lynch

  Trying, Lost, More Money

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• The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

  Peter Lynch

  Money, Fear, Real

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing Money, Brain, Making Money

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

  Peter Lynch

  Loss, Understanding, Balance

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Know what you own, and know why you own it.

  Peter Lynch

  Money, Intelligent, Investing

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• Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested

  Peter Lynch

  Economy, Interest, Rate

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Pain, Mistake, Humility

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Business, Intelligent

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• In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Intelligent, Long

  Peter Lynch, John Rothchild (2012). “Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• You should not buy a stock because it's cheap but because you know a lot about it.

  Peter Lynch

  Should, Knows

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.

  Peter Lynch

  Long, Worry, World

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Idiot, Someday

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• If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

  Peter Lynch

  Risk, Analyzing, Management

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• A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price drop is an opportunity to load up on bargains from among your worst performers and your laggards that show promise. If you can't convince yourself "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a buyer" and banish forever the fatal thought "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a seller," then you'll never make a decent profit in stocks.

  Peter Lynch

  Opportunity, Forever, Promise

  "One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market". Book by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild, 1989.

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• Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even a few years. In the long term, there is a 100 percent correlation between the success of the company and the success of its stock. This disparity is the key to making money; it pays to be patient, and to own successful companies.

  Peter Lynch

  Successful, Keys, Years

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.

  Peter Lynch

  Fall, Weekend, Thinking

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• Charts are great for predicting the past.

  Peter Lynch

  Past, Predicting

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• When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

  Peter Lynch

  Buying, Attractive, Bottom

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• You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

  Peter Lynch

  Mean, Needs, Lifetime

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• Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

  Peter Lynch

  Ideas, Investing, Saving

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

  Peter Lynch

  Math, Needs, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?

  Peter Lynch

  Learning, Keys, History

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• If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

  Peter Lynch

  Inspirational, Money, Intelligent

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Finance, Refrigerators

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• The simpler it is, the better I like it.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing

  Peter Lynch, John Rothchild (2000). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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